The GOOD DEALs and INTERESTING find thread!

[LOBO]

You mean the training gear thread, or Where Gan I Get It? Generally, large institutions may or may not be "meh" toward a little guy, but all it takes is one employee inside sympathetic to your situation who knows somebody that can help to make all the difference--I've seen similar things with my mother's career, where the biggest thing she has going for her at four decades when the company wants to purge you at 30 years or less is a lifetime of banked "owed favors," a similar span of all-but-extinct tribal knowledge and knowing where to reach out to when someone calls her with a problem. And guaranteed if you never reach out and ask the question the answer is ALWAYS gonna be "No."

Now if I could just get a response from Ibiley or whatever their tactical-gear business unit calls itself now about repair kits for TAP's since The Absent Minded Perfesser mislaid mine...

I looked for the Where Can I Get It? thread with no joy.

[Diamondback]

I looked for the Where Can I Get It? thread with no joy.

https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...hread/page1499

[LOBO]

https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...hread/page1499

Thank you.

[3 AE]

I was hesitant to mention this deal on this plate carrier since I've never heard of this vendor or did any business with them. I figured I might as well post the link and maybe a member who needs a solid plate carrier at a bargain price will take a chance and post a review. I have an APC from three years ago and it was nowhere near the price in the following link.

https://duty-gear.com/product/new-ve...mmberbund.html

[Diamondback]

I was hesitant to mention this deal on this plate carrier since I've never heard of this vendor or did any business with them. I figured I might as well post the link and maybe a member who needs a solid plate carrier at a bargain price will take a chance and post a review. I have an APC from three years ago and it was nowhere near the price in the following link.

https://duty-gear.com/product/new-ve...mmberbund.html

Address is a house and website text looks like aa bad combo of Engrish and copypasta. Proceed with caution is my gut, can't articulate why but I have little red lights flashing in the corners of my mind on this one.

EDIT: SCAM! The address is a vacant lot. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...05901500_zpid/

[themonk]

Address is a house and website text looks like aa bad combo of Engrish and copypasta. Proceed with caution is my gut, can't articulate why but I have little red lights flashing in the corners of my mind on this one.

EDIT: SCAM! The address is a vacant lot. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...05901500_zpid/

Thanks for the legwork on this one!

[Pi3]

Thanks for the legwork on this one!

I just got a "website risky" warning when picking this.

[Diamondback]

As a general rule, if they're not a proven vendor ALWAYS check out their listed physical address first. There are lots of home-based businesses to be sure, but when you look it up on maps and see part of a public park or a vacant lot with no building that's as much a definite Red Flag as Chuck Schumer showing up and saying "Let's Make A Deal"... generally if it's not clearly a commercial building I'm wary.

[Diamondback]

Interesting Find: Armored Republic (AR500) "Heritage" flat NIJ Level III plates (good against M855 but not M193) 2 for $65 ending at midnight Pacific tonight. Add trauma pads for $20 ($10 each) or upgrade to multicurve plates for $34 ($17 each).
https://www.ar500armor.com/heritage-...dium=affiliate

Other products, 20.12% off with code 10YEAR.

[Stickman]

Interesting Find: Armored Republic (AR500) "Heritage" flat NIJ Level III plates (good against M855 but not M193) 2 for $65 ending at midnight Pacific tonight. Add trauma pads for $20 ($10 each) or upgrade to multicurve plates for $34 ($17 each).
https://www.ar500armor.com/heritage-...dium=affiliate

Other products, 20.12% off with code 10YEAR.

I would probably skip armor before wearing steel plates... poly and hybrids are where its at.